INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY | Hands that speak | The teacher who never stopped learning

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY | Hands that speak | The teacher who never stopped learning

FELICITY Ali communicates in a language that only an estimated 3.3 per cent of people in Fiji understand. She was not born into it, nor did she take up formal training to learn. It was her students who taught her how to communicate with them. Twenty-one years ago, Ms Ali joined the Gospel School for the Deaf as a librarian but when a teacher left without warning, she was asked to stand in by the school’s director at the time, Jim Cooney. As he w…